How to distinguish crocodile ascarides

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Authors	MAŠOVÁ Šárka BARUŠ Vlastimil SEIFERTOVÁ Mária JIRKŮ Miloslav
Year of publication	2012
Type	Conference abstract
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
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Description	After parasitological dissection of one specimen of Nile crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus (Laurenti, 1768), from the Lake Turkana (Kenya), was revealed the presence of two ascaridoid nematodes referable to genus Dujardinascaris Baylis, 1947. They were identified on the basis of original descriptions and our key to species as Dujardinascaris madagascariensis Chabaud et Caballero, 1966 and D. dujardini (Travassos, 1920), according their morphology.
Related projects:	ECIP - Evropské centrum ichtyoparazitologie